# Mixpanel vs PostHog (slim)

> PostHog scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Mixpanel's 62 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do analytics query. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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PostHog scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Mixpanel's 62 (B), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do analytics query.

- Mixpanel: B 62, rank #313 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mixpanel.min.md
- PostHog: B 68.4, rank #171 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/posthog.min.md
- Mixpanel, good for Teams already tracking in Mixpanel who want an agent to answer funnel, retention and cohort questions or manage Lexicon, experiments and flags.
- PostHog, good for An agent that answers product questions in SQL or with funnel, retention and trends queries, and that manages feature flags, experiments and error tracking in the same project. Ahead on Reliability, 74 against 65; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 61; Security & auth, 84 against 70; Maintenance & community, 89 against 80. Also Open source.

| Category | Mixpanel | PostHog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 74 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 79 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 61 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 70 | 84 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 37 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 84 | 83 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Mixpanel | PostHog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Mixpanel, Inc. | PostHog Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mixpanel.com/api` | `https://us.posthog.com` |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Mixpanel's terms of use. The tracking SDKs and the Claude Code plugin on GitHub are Apache-2.0, and Mixpanel Headless is MIT | MIT for the repository outside the `ee` directory, which has its own licence. PostHog Cloud is a hosted service under PostHog's terms |
| Tools exposed | 64 | 1096 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.PostHog/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-06-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-06-29 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 3.2M npm/wk, 1.5M PyPI/wk | 40k stars, 15.2M npm/wk |